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Lucia di Lammermoor opera in three acts

Title: Lucia di Lammermoor [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Gaetano Donizetti ; libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on Walter Scott's novel The bride of Lammermoor.
Author: Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848.

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Description

on 5 sides of 3 sound cassettes (190 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Dec. 9, 1961\611209\]

Uniform Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)]
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Subjects

Note

Sung in Italian.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:11:30 (synopses and features) ; 1:58:00 (opera).
With production notes and official cast list (6 p.).

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 9, 1961.

Contents

side 1. Introduction, season greeting and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross, Mrs. August Belmont) ; Opera news on the air: Richard Bonynge and Terry McEwen discuss the Sutherland-Bonynge career ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz: Edward Downes, Walter Slezak, Jay Harrison, Fausto Cleva and George Martin ; Synopsis of act 3, scene 1 (Cross) ; Howard J. Hook, Jr. speaks about the 1961-1962 National Council's Regional Auditions ; Synopsis of act 3, scene 2 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 146 (F)

OCLC

NYPG85-R389

Author

Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848.

Title

Lucia di Lammermoor [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Gaetano Donizetti ; libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on Walter Scott's novel The bride of Lammermoor.

Playing Time

011130 015800

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Dec. 9, 1961\611209\]

Performer

Joan Sutherland (Lucia) ; Richard Tucker (Edgardo) ; Frank Guarrera (Enrico) ; Robert Nagy (Normanno) ; Nicola Moscona (Raimondo) ; Thelma Votipka (Alisa) ; Charles Anthony (Arturo) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Silvio Varviso, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 26, no. 4 (Dec. 9, 1961).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 9, 1961.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in July 1985, from borrowed masters (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Added Author

Cammarano, Salvatore, 1801-1852. Librettist

Scott, Walter, 1771-1832. Bride of Lammermoor.

Sutherland, Joan, 1926-2010. Performer

Tucker, Richard, 1913-1975. Performer

Guarrera, Frank, 1923- Performer

Nagy, Robert, 1929- Performer

Moscona, Nicola. Performer

Votipka, Thelma. Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Varviso, Silvio. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Belmont, Eleanor Robson, 1879- Commentator

McEwen, Terry.

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Slezak, Walter, 1902- Commentator

Harrison, Jay. Commentator

Cleva, Fausto. Commentator

Martin, George Whitney. Commentator

Hook, Howard J.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)]

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 146 (F) \(Production notes in listening room.)

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